Friday, February 20, 2004

Of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order - Carnegie Council
Robert Kagan expounds on the differing worldviews held by Europeans and Americans, which came to a head during the UN Security Council debate on Iraq.

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Thursday, February 19, 2004

Foreign affairs visionary honored - Trenton Times
The high-ranking former diplomats and Cold War scholars who assembled for a tribute to legendary U.S. foreign-policy strategist George F. Kennan had little advance warning they would be upstaged yesterday. But a brief and unexpected appearance by Kennan himself left the panelists momentarily speechless at the start of the four-hour conference. The event, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study here where Kennan has been a permanent faculty member since 1956, took place just two days after Kennan's 100th birthday.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Rifts widen in Bush's foreign policy team - CSM
When it comes to Iraq, the Bush administration's foreign policy team is speaking with one voice: All the players are saying that despite faulty prewar intelligence, the president's decision to go to war was right. But behind the unanimity is dissonance in tones and forcefulness that suggests the deeper differences that have been part of the Bush foreign policy since the beginning. The failure to see eye to eye extends to the so-called Bush doctrine of preemptive war - one of the administration's defining policies - and reaches to the president's top foreign-policy players.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

With friends like these - FT.COM
In its diplomacy, as in its military strategy, the United States is discovering that it has a very shaky idea of who its real friends are...It would be surprising if America's future foreign policy did not take some account of which Europeans like it, and which don't.

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Monday, February 16, 2004

On Foreign Policy, Kerry Sees Strength in Alliances - Reuters
John Kerry is offering American voters a far different vision of the U.S. role in international affairs than President Bush, one that much of the world may find more familiar and more comforting.

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